About “Bitch Bad”

The second official single from Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1, Bitch Bad tackles the use of the notorious word, “bitch”, and its effects, especially on children. As Lu seemingly cosigns, it actually accurately depicts Sigmund Freud’s Madonna–whore complex.

Notice that the title itself is a play on words, as the phrase is usually “bad bitch”. Also note that the track, which is produced by The Audibles (D. Jordan & Jimmy Giannos), sounds the way many Hip-Hop songs that use the word “bitch” – mainly trap music – do, and that Lupe changes his flow to sound slightly simplistic and mainstream like many of these rappers. He’s dubbed it his Rod Serling Twilight Zone Flow, since “sometimes you just gotta talk to em.” The song features background vocals from MDMA a.k.a Poo Bear.